Tobias
March 4, 2020, 9:19pm
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Wouldn’t it be nice to have a powerful translator function in the discourse forum? As a robotic community this should be feasible.
Lower the entry hurdle
Writing fast and more complex sentences for non native English speaking people.
The bot could also be used to cross check when writing new posts in a foreign language. In this way you can train other languages for you and maybe an AI ;).
Maybe this could be a good start:
Contribute to the Transifex project The first step is to do some translating in the Transifex project. Create an account at Transifex and join a team for one or more languages. Add language to Discourse You have two options when you think that the...
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tfoote
March 4, 2020, 9:56pm
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I moved this to the Site Feedback category.
Discourse has a translator plugin.
discourse-translator - GitHub - discourse/discourse-translator Features++ Each post is only translated once per locale which saves you 💰 Note that language detection is also run once for every post. Be careful when enabling this on old and large...
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It has support for both Microsoft and Google translations and I’m sure that it could be extended to leverage Deeply you mentioned in the thread Request for creation of a German (speaking) ROS User Group
However it’s not included in our hosting package so we can’t turn it on.
Tobias
March 4, 2020, 10:22pm
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A DeepL based translation would perfect but the API was closed for free usage.
All the OS project based on DeepL API also seam to be dead. A shame.